Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Folks - The ever-generous Doug Herr wrote the following in response to my posting of them birdsnaps to one of the other lists: Begin forwarded message: > From: Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> > Date: May 29, 2006 8:15:04 AM CDT > To: leicareflex@freelists.org > Subject: [LRflex] Re: Weekend Birding w/Telyt > Reply-To: leicareflex@freelists.org > > > On May 28, 2006, at 11:54 PM, bob palmieri wrote: > >> Folks - >> >> Went out yesterday to hunt some elusive warblers with my wife, here's >> a >> couple of 400 Telyt shots that I'm liking at the moment; one literal >> and one poetic: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album409/bay_breasted_warbler_1_1_3880 >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album409/wilson_s_warbler_II >> > > Well done, both photos. > >> The damn Bay Breasted Warbler was hanging out right about 14 feet or >> so >> away from me for a coupla minutes... I'd put the tube on and it would >> move just beyond, I'd take the tube off and it would come in a little >> bit, etc... > > I've added a 30mm extension tube to my arsenal for just this sort of > situation. It's based on the 14198 1:1 extension tube for the 60mm > macro lens but I removed the tube's 'guts' to eliminate the vignetting > seen when the unmodified tube is used with a long lens. > > >> >> The Wilson's I was sorta shooting through a lotta vegetation; when I >> saw this image form in the 20d's finder I just had to snap. > > Good thing you did, very pretty photo. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > In addition, today he pointed out the following helpful fact: ... and now that I've thought about it, with a crop-factor camera such as the 20D or DMR the extension tube doesn't even have to be gutted. Gee... sound like I'll be using my 60 macro ring more often, for sure. Bob Palmieri